STEINBECK - ON THE EAST FROM EDEN volume 1-2 [complete in 2 vols.] 1st ed.

STEINBECK John

EAST OF EDEN

T. 1-2 [complete in 2 vols.]

translated by Bronislaw Zielinski

cover and wrapper designed by Aleksander Stefanowski

Warsaw, 1958, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, pp. 408, 494; format 13x20.5 cm

First edition in Polish!

East of Eden - a work by American Nobel laureate John Steinbeck, first published in September 1952, ten years before Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature, constituting the writer's magnum opus.

It is his longest work, and also his most ambitious and personal. It is a completely new, large-scale panorama of California and the lives of its people. It seems that, as in The Grapes of Wrath, the author has given readers a work of great importance, and this is due to the writer's deep commitment to the subject. California is John Steinbeck's home state. In the novel he recreated Salinas, the city of his youth, and its surroundings, picturesque and fertile in the rainy years, sultry and barren in periods of drought, and captured portraits of people he knew and was close to[3]. He portrayed California as his own native paradise of emigrants streaming in from the eastern states.

The cover was designed by Alexander Stefanowski.

HARDCOVER FULL CONTEMPORARY LEATHER, COVERS SURROUNDED BY BLIND-STAMPED BORDER. SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, DEEP EMBOSSING AND SIGNBOARD WITH GILDED TITLING. HAND-DYED MARBLED PAPER ON ENDPAPERS, ALL TRIMS DECORATED WITH THE SAME PATTERN.

BDB-/ BAD condition Pieces.